Salt Rain is a 2004 novel by Australian novelist Sarah Armstrong.

Allie slowly comes to learn about her heritage, her family, and her mother's story.

A reversal of the classic Australian theme of a child lost in the bush.

A reviewer for Publishers Weekly noted: "The novel's setting, a rainy farming valley in northern Australia, makes for effective atmosphere, but the backward-looking narrative moves slowly, mired in Allie's memories of Mae.

"[2] In Kirkus Reviews the writer agreed with that assessment: "Armstrong is talented, but her emotional delicacy is in danger of drowning in the portentous atmospherics.